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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 5, 1915.

Mode of proof.

any such regulation, or any investigation legal proceeding or remedy in respect of any such right privilege obligation liability penalty forfeiture or punishment as aforesaid :

Provided also that nothing in this section shall affect the operation of any regulation which may have been made since the 31st December, 1914, or which may be made hereafter.

6. Subject to the provisions of this Ordinance any regulation contained in the said edition may be proved in any court or proceeding in the Colony by the production of a copy of the said edition duly authenticated as provided in sub-section (3) of section 2 of this Ordinance.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 4th day of March, 1915.

M. J. BREEN,

Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 5th day of March, 1915.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colanial Secretary.

HONGKONG.

No. 8 OF 1915.

An Ordinance to provide for certificates of origin in respect of goods wares and mer- chandise sought to be imported from certain places and to provide for the furnishing of import manifests.

I assent to this Ordinance.

LS

F. H. MAY,

Governor.

[5th March, 1915.]

Short title.

Definition.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Certificates of Origin Ordinance, 1915.

2. In this Ordinance :-

(1.) "Person", except so far as relates to the impo- sition of the penalty of imprisonment, includes a body corporate and a firm,

(2.) "Ship" has the same meaning as in the Mer-

chant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.

No person to 3. No person except under licence from the Governor import goods shall import or attempt to import into the Colony any from certain goods wares or merchandise from any place specified in the places with- out a permit. First Schedule hereto without a permit from the Superin- tendent of Imports and Exports: Provided that the owners agents charterers or master of any ship arriving in the waters of the Colony and having on board any goods wares or merchandise to which this Ordinance applies, if they have no interrest in the said goods wares or mer- chandise except as carriers thereof, shall not be deemed to have imported or attempted to import the said goods wares or merchandise unless they or he shall have discharged the

same.

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